Bath Spa University Profile

Provide me the list of all staff and the faculty members of Bath Spa University? Tell me the name of the administrative staff and the board of directors of this University? Also provide me their email address, phone number and the professional profile?

Can you tell me about the Bath Spa University? Also list me the names of some of the notable Alumni of Bath Spa University?

[Neelu Bhasin]

Bath Spa University is a public university based at Newton Park on Duchy of Cornwall land. It has other campuses in the city of Bath, and one at Corsham Court in Wiltshire.

It gained full university status in August 2005 and was previously known as Bath College of Higher Education, and later Bath Spa University College. It is the UK's sixth biggest provider of Teacher Education.


It has formed partnerships with a number of regional Further Education Colleges and institutions. Under the Partnership, students take the first year of their Higher Education course in their local college and if successful, the rest of their course at Bath Spa University. The British and Irish Modern Music Institute campus in Bristol has all of its courses verified by Bath Spa University.

The partners are:

Circomedia
City of Bath College
City of Bristol College
New College, Swindon
Weston College
Wiltshire College at Trowbridge and Salisbury
British and Irish Modern Music Institute in Bristol


Rankings

In 2005, 2006 and 2008 it was named in the top 10 modern British universities by The Sunday Times, at positions 8, 5 and 8 respectively. It was ranked 8th best modern university in the UK by The Sunday Times in their 2016 university guide.

According to the 2014 Research Excellence Framework assessment, 51% of the research undertaken at it is either world leading or internationally significant, up from 19% in 2008. Acceptance rate is 12%.

It is ranked as one of the top five creative universities in the UK. Some of its courses rank well amongst university subject league tables:

The 2015 Complete University Guide ranked the Art and Design courses 29th in the UK, and Music courses at 32nd. The Guardian ranked Art courses at 27th in the UK in 2015. The Guardian ranked Film Production and Photography at the university 23rd in the UK in 2016.
The Sunday Times ranked Creative Writing 12th in the country in 2016.


Notable Alumni

Mary Berry, food writer
Harrison Birtwistle, composer
Manolo Blahnik, shoe designer
Glenn Brown, English painter, Turner Prize winner
Tracey Corderoy, award-winning children's writer
Sir Graeme Davies, engineer, academic, and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool, the University of Glasgow and the University of London
Roger Deakins, cinematographer
Peter Flannery, scriptwriter, author of Our Friends in the North
Laura Ford, artist
Jason Gardener, athlete, Olympic gold medallist
Kate Garraway, television presenter
William Harbutt, artist
Ian Hargreaves, journalist
Salima Hashmi, acclaimed artist, cultural writer, painter and an anti-nuclear weapon activist.
Mo Hayder, British crime novelist
Sir Howard Hodgkin, artist, Turner Prize winner
Ema "Emika" Jolly, electronic music producer
Elizabeth Kay, writer and author of The Divide trilogy
Phil Kelly, expressionist painter
Kill It Kid, Blues/Grunge/Americana Band, signed with EMI
Alastair King, TV and film composer,
Daren King, contemporary English novelist
Jan Linton, electronic music producer and singer/songwriter
Joanna MacGregor, classical, jazz and contemporary pianist, and Artistic Director of the Bath International Music Festival
Sir Donald Maitland, British diplomat and British Prime Minister Edward Heath's press secretary 1970 to 1974
David Charles Manners, best-selling author and charity co-founder
Dame Hilary Mantel, writer and novelist. Twice awarded the Booker Prize
Gordon Moakes, Bloc Party bassist and backing singer
Fred V & Grafix, Liquid Drum n' Bass Duo
Sally Nicholls, prize-winning British children's book author
Edward Piper, painter
Miller Puckette, mathematician and computer music researcher
Peter Randall-Page, artist
Simon Relph, assistant film director and producer
Dame Anita Roddick, businesswoman, founder of The Body Shop
Davide Rossi, violinist, string arranger, composer and a record producer, working with Goldfrapp and Coldplay.
Axel Scheffler, illustrator
Tristram Shapeero, television director
Rob Magnuson Smith, author
Sir William Stubbs, educator and former Rector of the University of the Arts London.
Judith Trim
Jules Williams, writer, Director, Producer author of The Weigh Forward
Evie Wyld, award-winning novelist and author